Congratulations! You are about to become an expert in a Colonial topic. There are so many areas of focus.
Over the next 5 weeks, you will be responsible to Plan, Do, and Review and for:
This project is exciting, challenging and informative. Your teachers can’t wait to work with each of you!
Colonial Times from A to Z by
Delightful text and colorful illustrations highlight colonial life from clothing accessories to the various trades that occupied the people of the 18th century. A fun way to learn about colonial life.
A Visual Dictionary of a Colonial Community by
This colorful dictionary is a treasure trove of illustrated information that will become a standard for readers of all ages. Topics include* colonial houses* a plantation and its outbuildings* wood and metalworkers and their tools* shops and shopkeepers* transportation* the apothecary, milliner, wigmaker, and many more
Early American Villages by
Travel to the sites where colonial villages, longhouses, missions and presidios, frontier settlements, and cow towns once thrived. Bial's photography captures the amazing spirit of the many different people who carved communities from our rugged land. Discover how they built homes and started businesses, made and traded goods,m and worked incredibly hard to realize their dreams.
Welcome to Felicity's World, 1774 by
Take an in-depth look at daily life and historical events in the American colonies during the Revolutionary War, including home life, work, medicine and play. Lavishly illustrated spreads feature historical photos, cutaway scenes and fascinating facts. Color illustrations throughout.
Colonial Craftsmen by
The vanished ways of colonial America's skilled craftsmen are vividly reconstructed in this superb book by Edwin Tunis. With incomparable wit and learning, and in over 450 meticulous drawings, the author describes the working methods and products, houses and shops, town and country trades, and individual and group enterprises by which the early Americans forged the economy of the New World. In the tiny coastal settlements, which usually sprang up around a mill or near a tanyard, the first craftsmen set up their trades. The blacksmith, cooper, joiner, weaver, cordwainer, and housewright, working alone or with several assistants, invented their own tools and devised their own methods. Soon they were making products that far surpassed their early models: the American ax was so popular that English ironmongers often labeled their own axes "American" to sell them more readily. In the town squares a colonist could have his bread baked to order, bring in his wig to be curled, have his eyeglasses ground, his medicine prescription filled, or buy snuff for his many pocket boxes. With the thriving trade in "bespoke" or made-to-order work, fine American styles evolved; many of these are priceless heirlooms now-the silverware of Paul Revere and John Coney, redware and Queensware pottery, Poyntell hand-blocked wallpaper, the Kentucky rifle, Conestoga wagon, and the iron grillework still seen in some parts of the South. The author discusses in detail many of the trades which have since developed into important industries, like papermaking, glassmaking, shipbuilding, printing, and metalworking, often reconstructing from his own careful research the complex equipment used in these enterprises. The ingenious, liberty-loving artisans left few written records of their work, and only Mr. Tunis, with his painstaking attention to authentic detail and his vast knowledge, could present such a complete treasury of the way things were done before machines obliterated this phase of early American life.
Colonial Living by
Colonial Living is EdwinTunis's a vigorous re-creation of 17th- and 18th-century America-of the everyday living of those sturdy men and women who carved a way of life out of the wilderness. In lively text and accurate drawings we see the dugouts and wigwams of New England's first settlers and the houses they learned to build against the cruel winters; the snug Dutch and Flemish farmhouses of Nieuw Amsterdam; the homes of the early planters in the South which would one day be kitchens for the houses they dreamed of building when tobacco had made them rich. Long research and love for his subject gave Tunis an intimate knowledge of the details of daily living in colonial times, from the period of tiny coastal settlements to the flourishing, interdependent colonies which fought a major war for independence. He shares all with his reader-the building of houses, with their trunnels, girts, and hand-hewn beams, the spinning of yarn and its weaving and dyeing, the making of candles and soap, and the intricate business of cooking on the open hearth with lug poles, cranes, bake kettles, and spits. He describes the early crops, and pictures the implements and animals used to produce them; in detailed pictures we see again the tools and products of the craftsmen-the blacksmith, the cooper, the miller, the joiner, and the silversmith. Edwin Tunis has brought the significant past to life with consummate skill. Rich in enjoyment, rich in information, with more than 200 drawings, his book is a warm, lively, and authentic panorama of a lost way of life.
Doing research is like a treasure hunt! Plan, Do, and Review helps you find the treasure! There are lots of books and sites with information about your topic. You will need to use books, PDS online resources, and websites listed on this LibGuide. There might be a book that is only about your colonial topic, but you might have to look in the Index and Table of Contents of more than one book. Remember to use Plan, Do, Review!
The Scarlet Stockings Spy by 
Katie's Trunk by 
The Hatmaker's Sign by 
A Big Cheese for the White House by 
The Amazing Air Balloon by 